Yah Baby! April 2008 was a month to challenge the prevailing wisdom out there from the economy to cost-benefit analysis. Here’s a sample of the projectmanagement411 topics:
Cost-benefit analysis on the ropes
“No change, no gain”
CFO views: presidential and economic
Poor economic analysis
Fuel costs drive transforming supply chains
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A European organization with the ugly acronym of ELU-PEG is bringing competing companies together to provide consolidated deliveries to retailers according to a CFO magazine piece:
“Benefits include increased delivery frequency, lower inventory, fewer out-of-stock situations, and improved on-time performance, according to Alan Waller, vice president of supply-chain innovation at Solving International, a UK consultancy.”
Europe’s higher, […]
Supply chain behavior is changing due to the rise in fuel costs according to CFO magazine’s article on the subject:
“”Once you get to $100-per-barrel oil, the incremental cost of adding smaller warehousing facilities closer to the customer to drive down transport cost makes sense,” says Curtis Greve, executive vice president at Pittsburgh-based Genco, one of […]
Recent CFO magazine article titled “Sucking It Up” details how supply chains are changing due to cost of fuel. One consideration is how high oil prices have to get before the China manufacturing labor advantage is overcome. CFOs of major companies are considering this:
“Higher oil prices are also exacting a toll on offshore outsourcing, where […]
CIO magazine seems to think that comparing TCO (total cost of ownership) and ROI measures reflects on the maturity of a company:
“When you think TCO you don’t see IT as a business driver or an asset that can increase revenue, profit or customer value,” says Anthony Giannino, a consultant at Cornerstone Solutions , a value-added […]
The Hindu has an excellent article about innovation that overviews a new book by Ram Charan called “The Game Changer”. In it is a discussion of what makes a great innovative team. What stuck out for me was the role of the executor who makes sure milestones are met. The authors emphasize a great point […]
I attended a user conference put on by my employer last week. Fascinating stories from clients using our enterprise software. One CFO, who also plays the IT role in his company, made an excellent comment about using technology as a differentiator. The key is to determine which business processes are going to give you an […]
Miki at Leadership Turn wrote a great post from an email from CEO of TWR Lighting, Ken Meador. It’s great because Ken is one of those rare executives who transparently talks about his business and makes great common sense. My comment to the post reveals some of the key topics and my curiousity about some […]
I get updated stats on projectmanagement411 every day. The people from around the world that are reading is growing (in order of readership):
United States
Australia
Europe (some type of grouping that doesn’t separate out the countries (?)
Canada
China
Great Britain
Netherlands
France
India
Italy
I would think that, given the tremendous level of activity and growth, India and China would have tremendous interest in […]
I’ve thoroughly enjoyed Jim Lee’s article on creativity in hard times in APICS e-news (sorry no direct link- go to www.apics.org for a subcription). In addition to offering reasonable approaches to dealing with a downturn he makes a very obvious point that most media seem to forget:
Since World War II, recessions have lasted for approximately […]
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